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'I’m not going to wake up at 8am just to make sure someone doesn’t need their shift covered that day': Coworker sets boundaries with colleagues, they call her out for not covering on her day off

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Employee is 9 days into new job when she feels like she's being conned, boss is completely absent: 'After hours requests, weekend requests, 10pm requests, 5am requests'

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Coworkers snoop through colleague's private social media just to screenshot and send to manager: 'She sent them a selfie I took at home and put on my Instagram story'

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Coworker pressures colleague to us AI tool to write simple 2-sentence email, colleague pushes back: 'It would take about ten seconds to write myself'

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Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

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Employee leaves job of 5 years with no fanfare, regrets spending years in a toxic environment: 'I left like a ghost'

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Employee makes half-joke about asking for 'allowance' when boss calls them family, boss retaliates and buries him under projects: 'It was clearly tongue in cheek'

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Gym manager reprimands personal trainer for staying home during blizzard travel ban despite their clients canceling: 'I'm expected to find an alternate route to work'

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Computer store boss ignores $110k debt, gambles at the casino and ignores employee concerns: 'The creditors are lining up to seize the equipment'

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Job's strict PTO policy means new employee has to work September through June with no days off: 'Turns out PTO can be theoretical'

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Boss messages employee at 8 PM, laughs when employee says their contract says 9-5: 'You disregarded your own boundaries by replying to him'

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Company gives employee a 20¢ cost of living adjustment after 5 years of dedicated service: 'Their reason? They needed to pay the C-suite more'

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Employee walks out of job of 9 years after they eliminated their position and reassigned them with no training: 'They gave me only busy work and never trained me'

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Worker turns down promotion of 30% more work with only 5% more pay, boss calls them 'unambitious': 'Am I wrong for not wanting to sacrifice my entire life?'

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Employee is only given 2 hours of tasks per day, boss chews them out for spending the rest of it on their phone: 'Okay, then give me more stuff to do?'

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Employee works 7 days/week from January to June, is denied a raise at the end of the year: 'Effectively, I will lose money this year to inflation'

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